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Government expenditure on agriculture - February 2019
01/02/2019
Since 2012 FAO collects Government Expenditure on Agriculture (GEA) data through a questionnaire annually sent in May to more than 150 countries. The questionnaire was...
Guidelines on data collection for national statistics on forest products
03/12/2018
Forests provide a range of goods and services that benefit the livelihoods and well-being of people and play a significant role in economies around the...
Guidelines for collecting data for sex-disaggregated and gender-specific indicators in national agricultural surveys - 2nd edition
03/12/2018
Gender equality is a central theme of the international development agenda and, correspondingly, the elimination of discrimination against women is an aim of many countries....
Guidelines on defining rural areas and compiling indicators for development policy
03/12/2018
These Guidelines aim to support decisions about rural development policy by offering concepts and methods to improve the quality, availability, and use of statistics. The...
Guidelines for development of a classification system related to Farm Typology
03/12/2018
The present Guidelines on Farm Typology were developed by the GSARS to address the needs of countries at different stages of development, using the experience...
Guidelines for measuring youth employment and Decent Work in agriculture within developing countries
03/12/2018
Decent Work, a term coined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1999, is broadly defined as work that is done freely without coercion or...
Handbook on crop statistics: improving methods for measuring crop area, production and yield
03/12/2018
This Handbook is the result of a research project undertaken within the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), a capacity-building initiative in...
FAO Statistical Pocketbook 2018
20/10/2018
This pocketbook presents, at a glance, selected key indicators on agriculture and food security, and is meant to serve as an easy-to- access and quick...
Credit to agriculture - October 2018
01/10/2018
Credit to Agriculture measures loans to agriculture producers provided by commercial bank credit. This dataset is built by compiling official country data published on-line by...
Directives sur les méthodes d’estimation de la production et de la productivité de l’élevage
01/10/2018
L'objectif de ces directives est de servir de document de référence en apportant aux statisticiens nationaux des orientations techniques et opérationnelles sur différents aspects des...
